[adz5a]

Interesting project, showing how "easy" it is to host[1] another language within Clojure. Like others, I admit I see little value for myself or as a selling point for beginners. For experienced engineers however, like I wrote above it should serve as a case study into how to hook up everything together to produce a working tool. Then it is a matter of seeing if and when there is opportunity to reuse such techniques to build DSLs that compile to native Clojure.

[1] Clojure is known to being designed to be hosted within another platform, but like all Lisps it is also a valid (and productive) hosting target by itself. It should be known that many of the APIs in the Clojure ecosystem rely either on:

- literal data structures - macros reusing native Clojure patterns / forms such as `let`, `def` ... - the shape of native (ie: defined within clojure.core) Clojure APIs, such as `get-in`, `with`...

Some examples: specter, integrant, mount, clojure.core.logic, datalog (datascript, datomic, xtdb), clojure.spec ...